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Big Block C8
I thought you modern Vette owners would enjoy this...
https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2026...s-the-freeway/
https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2026...s-the-freeway/
Drifting
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From: Keswick, Virginia
W hy did you climb Mount Everest? Because it was there!
That reminds me of a chap up in Pennsylvania 40 years ago who took a turbocharged 3.8L V6 engine out of a wrecked Buick Grand National and stuffed it into a 1978 Chevette. Truly an example of automotive sacrilege - but you would not believe how wicked fast that thing was.
Some people do not do things that really ought to be done. They do it because they can do it and nobody else ever did.
That reminds me of a chap up in Pennsylvania 40 years ago who took a turbocharged 3.8L V6 engine out of a wrecked Buick Grand National and stuffed it into a 1978 Chevette. Truly an example of automotive sacrilege - but you would not believe how wicked fast that thing was.
Some people do not do things that really ought to be done. They do it because they can do it and nobody else ever did.
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Le Mans Master
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He's keeping a tradition alive. Putting a bigger motor in a Corvette started in 1955..
Melting Slicks
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I have to wonder with the increased torque (who knows how much that even is) what'd they do, if anything, to beef up the DCT? The amount of engineering knowledge that's going into this is staggering.
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